The Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will again discuss whether to offer cash grants to reimburse the mall’s owners for the proposed expansion, renovation and related road improvements.

A tie vote at the supervisors’ March 8 meeting killed a resolution that would have authorized more than $17.1 million in grants to the mall’s owner, Youngstown, Ohio-based Cafaro Co.

Board Chairman Bob Hagan now is ready to offer a modified resolution that includes $18.1 million in grants and calls for Cafaro to widen a portion of Harrison Road to four lanes.

He needs just one opposing supervisor to change his mind in order to pass the measure, which could jump-start the proposed $92 million mall renovation and expansion project.

“Usually, opportunity only knocks once,” Hagan said. “In Spotsylvania, opportunity is going to knock a second time, and I hope a majority of the board will be there to answer that call.”

Two weeks ago, Hagan and Supervisors Hap Connors and Vince Onorato voted in favor of the grants to Cafaro. Supervisors Gary Jackson, Emmitt Marshall and Chris Yakabouski voted against it. Supervisor T.C. Waddy was ill and unable to attend the meeting.

Hagan said the Harrison Road widening should make the resolution “a more attractive offer” for those who voted against it.

The resolution based the grants on sales-tax revenue generated by mall businesses.

To win that $17 million prize, Cafaro would have built a four-lane road between the mall and Harrison Road, a covered FREDericksburg Regional Transit bus stop and a new mall entrance directly aligned with Carl D. Silver Parkway—the main access road into Fredericksburg’s Central Park.

Cafaro also would have built an $80 million “lifestyle center” beside the mall, featuring an open-air shopping area, restaurants, an upscale grocery store and a hotel. Another $12 million would have been spent refurbishing the existing mall.

Once the work was completed, the county’s Industrial Development Authority would have issued grants to Cafaro equal to half of the county’s slice of increased sales taxes generated by the businesses in the mall complex. Cafaro would have received the grants over a 20-year period.